The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-09-22
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A San Jose (Cal) bicyclist is having
machine made in the east with nine
foot wheel, and which will run mile
q minute
According to a Washington corres-
pondent Secretary Lamar now has his
trousers and his hair both cut in the
latest style.
The sum of $40, 600 is to be distribut-
ed among the blind of New York, and
as there are FIVE hundred of them each
will get $40.
Buenos Ayres is to have new thea
ter that will accommodate four thou
sand spectators. The cost is estimated
at 81, 200, 900.
A negro committed suicide in At
lanta, Ga, one day recently because
his wife refused to mend his clothes
and sew on buttons.
Emperor William lately faced the
Gamers of fair American, and she
took his picture before he 'conld say
lack Robinson in German.
During the late fatal illness of NJ.
Katkoff no editorials appeared in the
Moscow Gazette. There was no one
dUIc " bdkc LIZ ChiCA PtoSC.
Ex-Atty. Gen. Colt, of Rhode Island,
says it is impossible to enforce the pro-
Z hibition law in that state, because
juries will not convict offenders.
The Buffalo Courier declares that sit
is safe to say there are rs, 900 people in
Buffalo to-day" that have never seen
Niagara falls nor heard their roaring
. In eastern Nevada it has recently
ssbeen discovered by chance that the
noble red man mingles manufactured
squirrel scalps with the genuine article.
The police-matron system Is about
ITO be adopted by the Cincinnati de-
spartment. 1t is found to have worked
in Philadelphia with excellent results.
The widow of John Casey, a soldier
of the Revolution. has just received a
pension. Casey married her when she
was but 16, a few years before he died
In 1845.
The London World hears that the
ladies who went down to Windsor to
present her Majesty with 0.0O0 were
somewhat surprised at having to pay
for their tea.
Most of the southern iron shipped
north is carried in schooners. Cotton
manufacturers it is said may save
money by forwarding their products
in the same way.
Though six attempts have been made
during the past five years to abolish
the use of corsets at Vassar college the
dear girls still cling to them with girl
ish adhesiveness.
The good editor of The Geneva (N.
W Advertiser says he has cut down q
a lon oy.
pose the small boys of the nsighbor-
hood to temptation.
The artesian we'll at Pesth, the deep
est one in the world. supplies hot water
for public baths and other purposes.
176, 900 gallons of water heated to 15C
degrees Fahrenheit. =
The wife of Henry George is a pretty
little woman, accustomed to taking
her husbands vagaries as matter Of
p course. She is described as matter
of fact little body, loving her four
children devotedly.
The Russiln aeronaut Casloviche
claims to have at last invented per-
fectly navigable balloon. In order to
preserve the secret of it's construction
he is having the various parts of the
O6llOOA 0ultt IA olAiCiCub COuAJt&Ehf
Preparations are being made at the
Chisefhurst Roman Catholic church for
the removal of the sareophagus of the
late Emperor Napoleon Ill. and the
body of the late Prince Imperial to
the new mausoleum which the ex-Em-
press Eugenie has built at Farm
borough.
There is an old-tilne Methodist
preacher on the Etowah circuit in
Georgia who has to make his fifteen
mile rounds on foot every Sunday. He
has wife and five children and sal
ary of $500 a year. The Atlanta Con-
stttGtion is trying to raise money en-
Dngh to buy horse for him.
The editor of the Cornwall IN, W
Register has a watch he has carried for
sixty years, and his father be fore him
carried it for ten years. He says it has
been drowned twice and dashed against
O wall. but lis just as good as new
except little piece broken out of the
edge of the face. IS
it Is singular fact that one of the
leading county papers in South Caro-.
lima, The AbbeUille Press and Banner,
always fierce enemy of negro edn-
cation is printed exclusively by negroes
swhile The Baptist Tribune, the chief
eolored organ of the state, edited by
Two colored men, is printed wholly by
white compositors.
Analyses of Brooklyn milk show that
the average article is aduiterated 1sl
per cent. with water. The milkmep
8 defend themselves by saying that the
farmer puts piece of ice in the can,
and when that melts the dealer has tc
in fha9. I'D Ii
water reaches to the percentage found.
Gen. John Bidwell, who recently
gave eight acres of his great ranch at
Chico, Cal, as site for the new Nor.
NAL School of Northern Caiifornia,
went to that State long before the dis
covery of gold. He bought his ranch
OF $4,000 acres for IS, 600, and now it is
worth 81, 900, 900. and yields an income
OF 100000. Gen. Bidwell used to be
q great wine producer, but his second |
wife has induced him to root out all |
his wine grapes and,replace them with
raisin grapes.
From the Pacific Ocean comes news |
OF pending royal divorce between |
Pomare ", King of the Society Isl
lands, and his Queen Marau, the pretty
brunei, who was for a time "a lion'-
or should say "a lioness"p-in Paris.
ian society when she was staying at |
the French Capital in 1885, King Po-
mare considers himself the aggrieved
party, having even gone so far as to /
disavOw the paternity of the two
charming little girls, who according to |
the Queen, form part of the royal |
family.
Miss Louise Chandler Moulton has
lately visited Mr.. Oscar Wilde in Lon
don. .'The Apostle of the Beautiful |
pretty house. l found his dainty, |
cream-colored dining-room especially |
attractive. / think It must be an orig
inal design, this white room, white walls, /
white chairs, white cabinets, white
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